Helen Forrest quotes

Helen Forrest quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“He would forget everybody's name, so everybody was called 'Pops'.”
-- Helen Forrest

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“Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.”
“If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach...”

Source : Aaron Copland (1959). “The pleasures of music”
“I heard my name." Ash's voice startles me. "You tow better not be making fun of me about this stupid bra Mama's making me wear. I've had it with the jokes. I'll break both your noses if it doesn't stop.”
“Bebop was like humming along to Mitch Miller to me.”
“Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.”

Source : Alexis De Veaux (1980). “Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday”, HarperCollins Publishers
“New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.”
“I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.”

Source : "Cuba, Cognac, and Cachao with Andy Garcia". Interview with Allyson Shiffman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 16, 2013.
“Player for player, thereâ€™s â€¨no better working band in jazz than The Cookers.”
“I couldn't forget. I couldn't break. She had the power to break me. No one had ever been given that power, ever.”
“Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible Â its multitudinous Charlatans-- everything in short but Â the Enchantress of Numbers.”

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